Parallel Bible results for "1 john 4:8-18"

1 John 4:8-18

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8 The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love - so you can't know him if you don't love.
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him.
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
10 This is the kind of love we are talking about - not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.
10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other.
11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us - perfect love!
12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know we're living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He's given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.
14 Also, we've seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God's Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God.
15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
16 We know it so well, we've embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God.
16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
17 This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day - our standing in the world is identical with Christ's.
17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.
18 There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life - fear of death, fear of judgment - is one not yet fully formed in love.
18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
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